Articles - A Great Way To Build A Content
Site

A great source of quality
content, fast

You can build tightly focused
content by including appropriate articles on your
site.

There are several options available
for acquiring article content.

You can write the articles
yourself - time consuming, but it does mean that you will
have unique content that will not be found anywhere else on
the Internet.

You can find appropriate
articles on the many article directory sites on the
Internet. This can be a great way to find niche articles,
but the downside is that the content you find is likely to
also feature on many other sites on the web. This can
result in pages being 'penalized' by search engines for
being 'duplicate content'. Also, for copyright reasons, it
is not usually possible to edit the articles you find in
article directories and in most cases you will be required
to include a resource box that gives credit to the author
of the article and usually a link to one of their
sites.

A great alternative to article
directories are 'article membership sites'. Although this
is not a free resource, like those above, it does offer
several big advantages. Firstly, it means that the number
of people who have access to the articles is restricted so
you can be quite sure that the article won't be appearing
on thousands of sites all over the Internet (so your pages
are less likely to be penalized by search engines for
duplicate content).

Secondly, most
membership sites that offer articles give you the rights to
edit the articles as much as you like. This means that you
can take the basic article and change it to suit your own
needs. Not only does this mean the content becomes your own
unique content it also means that you can optimize the
article for your chosen keywords. Lastly, having access to
articles you can customize for your own use will help to
get you over that initial writer's block. To write an
article from scratch can take anything from 30 minutes to a
few hours, but if you are customizing an existing article
it will take a fraction of the time, often as little as
five minutes.

Another option for generating
article content is to pay someone to write it for you. You
might be thinking "that's too expensive, surely..." but
you'd be amazed at how easy it is to find really
cost-effective writers online who will often write copy for
incredibly low fees. Again, an advantage of this type of
content is that it takes you no time to write, can be
keyword rich, and is truly unique to your
site.

Sub-page
Lists:

A really neat little feature within
XSitePro is that you can quickly generate lists of
sub-pages (below we've included a list of our article pages
below this 'articles index page'). This not only looks very
professional, but also makes navigating your article content
easier for visitors.

It's especially useful if you have
a lot of articles (or other sub-page content)
whichyou
wish to present, but don't wish to clutter the main navigation
menus with. And the other great reason for using this is that
whenever you add another sub page (in this case, another
article beneath this article index page) it will automatically
be added to the page list below. The descriptions even get
added automatically for you!